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The focus on transition week in year 3 was the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk. One of maths activities was a data handling task. In pairs we had to open a pea-pod, count the peas and record the total on a tally chart. Once we had opened all our pea pods we...

A huge amount of thanks to our amazing PTFA who worked tirelessly to create another fantastic family fun day! The weather was so kind to us all and I think it's fair to say that everyone had lots and lots of fun! Well done to all our parents who support our events...

As well as reading, discussing and writing their own poems, Year 2 children have also been working on their performance skills. When you read a poem aloud it's really important that you say it at the correct speed, make the rhyming words stand out and take a breath...

On Friday morning all children met in their four house groups to share together the information prepared by Mission Together, the Pope’s official children’s charity for overseas mission. The children talked about how we can help other children across the world and...

Our key stage 1 and reception class children had the opportunity to visit Caedmon Hall to watch a performance of Hey Piggy Piggy! It was musical performance written especially for the under 8's and was a new version of the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs....

On Friday we received bananas as our snack which we really enjoy. But these bananas were different! They each had a word on them and if we wanted to eat a banana then we had to read the word. If we got the word correct we could take the banana and enjoy it but if we...

The children from year 1 reminded us of the importance of making the right choice and to always remember to say sorry. They shared with us the story of Zacchaeus who made lots of wrong choices until he met Jesus. He helped him to change his ways and become a good...

We went to Diocesan festival at Allensford with many other schools from the Diocese. We listened to the Gospel reading of the Parable of the Sower. The message of the day was: 'When you hear the word of God. Listen to it, receive it and let it grow.' Luke 8:1-15 The...

The children from Year 1 had a great day at Gibside where they spent lots of time looking for and examining a whole range of mini-beasts who live there. The sun came out in the afternoon in time for the children to enjoy a picnic and play in the amazing adventure...

We are currently reading the book Stig of the Dump and we started to think that the inside of the dump could do with some nice decorations. Our first job was to plan our design and then we had to follow our design to create our decorated jar. [gallery size="medium"...